To commemorate the 15th anniversary of Brutal Legend, community manager Harper Jay published an interview with Double Fine and Tim Schafer discussing how the game came to be, its legacy, and of course, its future.
Much of what Schafer speaks about has already been said before. When we sat down with him in 2021 and brought up the elusive Brutal Legend 2, he likewise said that he'd rather lean into the RTS elements than make "God of War with Eddie Riggs." But what's fascinating about this new piece is that it reveals that Brutal Legend is "a universe many folks here at the studio wonder about returning to."
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Unfortunately, it's "not in the cards for now", but that doesn't mean that the studio isn't thinking about it. "The challenge is figuring out what [a sequel] might even look like. There was more DLC ideas for the original game, and it was always meant to be a world that could be further built upon. But after 15 years, it's tricky to know what's expected."
Lead programmer Chad Dawson "had a few ideas"...